Improvement in sad-irons



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

IMPROVEMENT IN SAD-IRONS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 118,623, dated August 29, 1871.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, JOHN G. MAXGY and THOMAS LEWIS, of Springfield, in the county of Sangainon and State of Illinois, have invented a certain Improvement in Sad-Irons; and we do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the annexed drawing making a part of this specification, in which Figure 1 represents a perspective view of a sad-iron turned upside down to show our improvement. Fig. 2is a side elevation, representin g the iron passing over buttons on the article being ironed. Fig. 3 is an end view.

The same letters of reference are employed in all the figures in the designation of identical parts.

The nature of our invention consists in fOIIlling a groove in the base of a sad-iron or tailors goose, so that it may be passed over buttons without being lifted out of contact with the fabric of the article to be ironed, and also, in ironing plaited work, to permit the plaits to enter said groove while ironing under the plaits.

In the annexed drawing, A. refers to the iron and B to the handle, which may be attached to the iron in any approved or preferred manner.

In the base of the iron A we form a longitudinal groove, 0, which should be quite narrow at the throat 0, but gradually widen as it enters the metal, so that while the throat only just admits the shank of a button the other part of the groove will be of sufficient size to let the disk of the button pass through. The preferred form of the groove is that shown, but it is evident that the configuration of the groove may be greatly varied without departing in any sense from the principle of our invention. The groove is made fiarin g at the point of the iron, as shown in Fig. 1, so as to facilitate the entrance of buttons into the groove.

What we claim as our invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A sad-iron or tailors goose having a groove in its base, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony that we claim the foregoing we have hereunto set our hands this 7th day of March, 1871.

JOHN G. MAXOY. THOMAS LEWIS. Witnesses:

MIFFLIN BELL, O. R. LINDEY. 

